Freeman Lecture: Looted Art and Restitution: From Napoleon to the Nazis

The History Department welcomes Sir Richard Evans from the University of Cambridge as the 2018 Freeman Professor.

Sir Richard Evans is widely considered the world’s greatest living historian of modern Germany. Among his eighteen books are The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933; Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910; Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1700-1987; and his magisterial three-volume history of the Third Reich.

The Douglas Southall Freeman Professorship of History honors one of University of Richmond’s most illustrious alumni.